The Armorial Tomb of a Dean of Ely

Today we come to the armorial tomb of Augustus Duncombe, Dean of Ely 1858-1880.

Augustus was the fifth son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. The Dean has a short entry on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Duncombe

The two shields at the head of his tomb are, on the left: the Dean of Ely (variant). Usually seen as either Gules two keys in saltire or, or sometimes, Gules two keys in saltire and in chief a capital letter "D" or, this version replaces the D with a crown, impaling Duncombe, Per chevron engrailed gules and argent three talbot’s heads erased counterchanged.

And the shield on the right is Duncombe (as above) impaling Douglas, Quarterly: 1 and 4, Argent a human heart gules imperially crowned proper on a chief azure three mullets argent (Douglas); 2 and 3, Azure a bend between six crosses crosslet fitchy or (Mar); all within a bordure or charged with a double tressure flory counter-flory gules.

Augustus Duncombe married, on 13 May 1841, Lady Harriet Christian Douglas, the second child of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry.